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TIL While painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo wrote a poem about the physical toll it took on him.

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R7vX9 TIL In March 2006 a man purchased an authentic official copy of the Declaration of Independence, one of 200 “official copies” commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1820, for $2.48 at a Nashville, TN thrift shop. It later sold for $477,650 at auction.
kJOkW TIL Auntie Anne's pretzels started in Pennsylvania, and is a woman run company.
R7aK8 TIL the leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th Century was Democide, the murder of a person by their government, which surpasses war.
lEra TIL that in China, more than 30 million people live in caves. Also that in the stone age there were only 5 million people on the earth, meaning that there are more cavemen now than there have ever been.
nWJ6W TIL dandelion roots can be made into a coffee-like beverage.